Haifa port: 223 containers per ship hour and an average of more than 40 containers per crane hour

Astonishingly high productivity was
recorded on the MSC VANDYA, which called at Haifa Port as part of the 2M
Alliance, said a release from Haifa Port.

The ship, which only arrived on Friday
morning (a week ago) in the middle of the “A” shift, had to complete all its
work by the end of Friday’s “B” shift in order to depart that evening and make
its berth window at the Port of Koper on the Adriatic. Not only that, the
number of containers to be unloaded was almost double that of a regular week.

Haifa Port tackled this challenging task
head-on. At 10:15am, five STS cranes were assigned to the ship at the Carmel
Terminal, and this number increased to seven during the “B” shift. However, the
sheer number of cranes did not guarantee success, and peak productivity was
required in order to complete the unloading process within an extremely tight
schedule.

The result? Victory!

The “A” shift achieved average
productivity of 44.9 containers per crane hour, while “B” shift moved an
average of 39.9 containers per crane hour. The crews also recorded a very
impressive figure of 223 containers per ship hour! Therefore, all the required
operations on the ship, which began at 10:15am, were fully completed by 7:00pm,
enabling the MSC VANDYA to depart Haifa Port right on schedule.

The magnitude of this achievement was
not lost on Edni Simkin, CEO of MSC Israel: “Haifa Port met the challenge in
the short time it had to complete work on the ship. It is a great achievement,
both in terms of the quantity of containers, whichwas significantly greater on
this occasion, and in terms of the port’s impressive productivity. All that
remains is to thank Haifa Port and the dockworkers who managed to get the ship
out before Shabbat, enabling it to arrive on time at the Port of Koper.

It was an extraordinary challenge and an
exceptional level of performance by any standard. There are not many terminals
anywhere in the world that could do something like this.